Ballot vs Harmonization

This page documents an, i.e. an issue within scope of the ArB Work Group that is reflected in other documents.

introduction

The TSC referred a complaint from GE to ArB for comment. See 20080207_Telcon for discussion.

One issue that arose out of this is the question of the relationship between ballot and harmonization.

ArB proposes to ask MnM to write a document for us summarising how they see the situation as it is:

what is the expected relationship between harmonization and ballot?
what harmonised content is not subject to ballot in a membership ballot?
how should committees respond to Negative line items on vocabulary definitions that are subject to harmonisation?
under what conditions do they advise committees to go to ballot prior to harmonisation?
what arrangements prevent a committee from avoiding ballot on substantiative issues and using harmonisation instead?